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Flanking Microstructures
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Solid Earth Geology.
2009 (English)In: Geological Magazine, ISSN 0016-7568, E-ISSN 1469-5081, Vol. 146, no 4, p. 517-526Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Ductile sheared rocks of the Higher Himalayan Crystalline unit (HHC) in micro-scale reveal flanking microstructures defined by nucleated   minerals (the cross-cutting elements, CEs), and deflected cleavages and   grain margins (the host Fabric elements, HEs) of other minerals.Depending on different or the same senses of drag across the   cross-cutting elements, the flanking microstructures are grouped into   Type 1 or Type 2 varieties, respectively. Cross-cutting elements of Type 2 flanking microstructures connote post-tectonic directional growth. The cross-cutting elements of the Type I flanking   microstructures consistently demonstrate top-to-SW non-coaxial shearing   in the Higher Himalayan Crystalline unit. Here the external host fabric elements bounding the cross-cutting elements act as the C-planes. These   cross-cutting element minerals are usually parallelogram-shaped,   underwent crystal-plastic deformation and their nucleations are pre- or   syntectonic. The facts that the host fabric elements are dragged even in absence of rheological softening at the boundaries of the   cross-cutting elements, and that the cross-cutting elements are non-rigid, indicate strong bonds between the host fabric elements and   the cross-cutting elements. Salient morphological variations in the   flanking microstructures are: (1) variable intensity and senses of drag   along the single and the opposite crosscutting element margins; (2) host fabric elements defined only at one side of the cross-cutting   elements; and (3) presence of a thin hazy zone at the HE-CE contacts.   The observed cross-cutting element minerals are either of nearly the same or of greater competency than the mineral grains which host them.

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2009. Vol. 146, no 4, p. 517-526
Keywords [en]
flanking microstructure, flanking structure, microstructure, ductile shear, Higher Himalayan Crystallines
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Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-105514DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809005986ISI: 000267686600004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-105514DiVA, id: diva2:221418
Available from: 2009-06-04 Created: 2009-06-04 Last updated: 2022-01-28Bibliographically approved

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